Here is what Republican Sarah Janecek
wrote in the initial days after the election:
The outsider ethos that has plagued Al Franken since the inception of his candidacy two years ago now manifests itself in an even uglier fashion: casting doubt on Minnesota’s election process…
Franken and the DFL Party are not entitled to, at best, cast doubt on our process, or worse, create chaos. The PR and legal strategy appears to hang on “properly cast votes properly counted.”…
The incredible irony here is that Democrats appear to be setting up SOS Ritchie — an unabashed liberal — as being responsible for not ensuring that some votes may have not been properly cast or properly counted.
That’s rich. But it’s also wrong.
We’ve talked to a number of rank-and-file election judges (from both parties) this week and they feel insulted. These people volunteer their time year after year to do the Good Neighbor thing at the polls. To smear our elections process is to smear them, they believe…
I carefully listened to both events. Ritchie sidestepped a few partisan shots that would have been easy to make. Kudos to Richie, who, unlike other DFLers, seems to be a much better judge of what’s going on here:
The nation is watching. Minnesota is not Florida or Ohio. Can we please not trash our process?
Reading this ten days after it was written, it almost seems preposterous that Janecek was writing about DFL, and not GOP, attempts to undermine Minnesota’s election process.
Over the last two weeks, Mark Ritchie has been the target of a concerted smear campaign by Republicans trying to undermine the recount and Minnesota’s election process. Despite the fact that there is ZERO evidence of ANY wrongdoing on the part of Mark Ritchie and despite the fact that Republicans from Katherine Kerten to Fritz Knaak to Tim Pawlenty have all admitted as much, conservative hacks like Michael Brodkorb and conservative groups like Minnesota Majority continue to try to torpedo a process that, by all indications, is working exactly as it should.
To Sarah’s credit, she did call out Norm in the piece I linked to above:
I disagree with GOP U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman’s initial strategy of trying to discourage a recount. Franken is entitled to one, and Minnesota law wisely provides for one in close races.
But since that time, team Coleman has done far worse than just discourage a recount. They’ve been working to cast Ritchie as a biased partisan (despite NO evidence supporting that conclusion) and they’ve been attempting to de-legitimatize the recount even before the results are known.
I hope Republicans like Sarah Janecek, who have professed support for letting the process work, will object to these disgusting tactics.
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